asg70 wrote:^^^ Homeland security would have a field day in this thread.
careinke wrote:I just watched the documentary "The Great Hack." It left me with lots of things to think about. I strongly suggest everyone watch it. It brings up major concerns about privacy, data collection, sales of data, individualized targeted advertising, and even psyops on individual voters in the 2016 election and the Brexit vote.
The film is from a left leaning perspective but the info is VERY interesting. For instance one company had over 5,000 data points on every american voter. Where you shop, what you do, what movies you go to, where you eat, and at least 4996 other data points....for every voter in america. With that data they could identify who they could turn and specifically targeted those individuals with a personal propaganda campaign.
They asked why they didn't work with the Dems. The answer, well they didn't buy our services
Although I did not agree with some of their conclusions, and some of it was obviously staged, there were certainly multiple layers to this documentary.
BELIEVE ONLY HALF OF WHAT YOU SEE AND NOTHING YOU HEAR - "Question everything, especially rumors. The proverb has been traced back to 'Proverbs of Alfred' (c. 1300). First attested in the United States in 1770. In 1845, it was used by American poet Edgar Allen Poe (1809-49)." From "Random House Dictionary of Popular Proverbs and Sayings" by Gregory Y. Titelman (Random House, New York, 1996).
In the beginning war looks and feels like love. But unlike love it gives nothing in return but an ever-deepening dependence, like all narcotics, on the road to self-destruction. It does not affirm but places upon us greater and greater demands. It destroys the outside world until it is hard to live outside war’s grip. It takes a higher and higher dose to achieve any thrill. Finally, one ingests war only to remain numb. The world outside war becomes, as Freud wrote, “uncanny.” The familiar becomes strangely unfamiliar—many who have been in war find this when they return home. The world we once understood and longed to return to stands before us as alien, strange, and beyond our grasp.
.....war was the ultimate drug experience. It was the chance to taste extremes that would, he hoped, bring about a catharsis or obliteration. In times of peace, drugs are war’s pale substitute. But drugs, in the end, cannot compare with the awful power and rush of battle.
Ibon wrote:Even in rural states you have up to a 30 or 40% voting democrat. Even in urban areas you have the same percentage voting republican. The split is not cleanly urban/rural just as it is not definable in any real geographical sense. The split is there but the territory is in the mind not out there in geography. So we are forced to resolve our differences.
Newfie wrote:Here’s a quote from a book I’m reading “War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning.”
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The think it’s good that it educates folks to mistrust their data sources.
dissident wrote:...finely tuned machinery for influencing the vote.
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